As the clock runs out on a 21-10 Penn State loss to Iowa, we can say, folks, the Lions have been exposed as a fraud tonight in a couple of areas:

-- The offensive line was absolutely dominated by Iowa. Welcome to Big Ten football.

-- Special teams are awful, just awful. How can a Big Ten team have such lousy special teams?

-- Penn State's wideouts, finally against Big Ten competition, failed to gain separation -- with rare instances, that is. Where was Graham Zug? Brett Brackett? Chaz Powell except for that one play? Derek Moye was the only wideout to make plays.

Another question mark:

-- Is Daryll Clark still a good quarterback? I think so, but the question must be asked. We know he's good for several high passes and a couple more very bad passes a game, and that, tonight, proved to be very costly. Sure, he got pressure, but he's not able to buy time. And he was reacting to pressure that wasn't there. Probably shellshocked. (Where is Pat Devlin?)

Also of note:

-- Lions dearly missed Sean Lee. Probably missed Nathan Stupar, too, although Stupar did play a little, and the linebackers made some good plays tonight, but they also got burned. Josh Hull, for example, missed a tackle on Iowa's rushing TD.

And finally

-- Is Iowa the new Michigan for Penn State? Maybe. Iowa is starting to really rankle me. But tonight, it wasn't as if Iowa had Penn State's number. Iowa was just better. And, we must ask, is Penn State any good?

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Akron, Syracuse, Temple - - - - - - -

and their ranked 5th?

Along comes Iowa and demolishes them.

Who was drinking the Joe Pa Koolaid?

Posted By: Tony Bonanni | Sep 26, 2009 11:51:19 PM

The high ranking culminating in number 5 was suspect all along. They just didn't play anyone until this point and although the scores often didn't show it really didn't "handle" any of those far lesser teams. The offensive line will continue to offend until they figure it all out. Special teams? Atrocious!